Re: file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information)

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:37 PM Jann Horn [off-list ref] wrote:

If you change the semantics of path strings, you'd have to be
confident that the new semantics fit nicely with all the path
validation routines that exist scattered across userspace, and don't
expose new interfaces through file server software and setuid binaries
and so on.

So that's where O_ALT comes in.   If the application is consenting,
then that should prevent exploits.   Or?

Thanks,
Miklos